{"id":29869,"date":"2022-06-06T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=29869"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:29:57","slug":"scholarships-for-news-grads-a-record-setting-guinea-pig-and-money-in-a-free-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/06\/scholarships-for-news-grads-a-record-setting-guinea-pig-and-money-in-a-free-couch\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarships For New Grads, A Record Setting Guinea Pig, And Money In A Free Couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Boston suburb is using some of its leftover stimulus money to help young people heading off to college.\u00a0 The mayor gave a speech at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, and people expected him to announce the\u00a0winner of a $1,000 scholarship.\u00a0 But instead, he said EVERYONE won it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2022\/06\/01\/malden-high-principal-surprises-every-senior-headed-to-college-with-1000-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All the students and parents in the auditorium went nuts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0guinea pig\u00a0named Molly that has her own tiny basketball hoop just broke a world record by doing four slam dunks in 30 seconds.\u00a0 And she might break it again soon.\u00a0 Her owners say<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s done twice that many before.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>A woman in California <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/money-couch-craigslist-colton\/11913777\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got a\u00a0free couch\u00a0and matching chair on Craigslist<\/a> . . . found $36,000 hidden in the cushions . . . and gave it back.\u00a0 The guy who put it there recently passed away,<br \/>\nand his family had no idea.\u00a0 The woman had also been looking for a fridge, so they gave her $2,200 of the money to buy a new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0A Boston suburb is using some of its leftover stimulus money to help young people heading off to college.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 14:46:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/06\/scholarships-for-news-grads-a-record-setting-guinea-pig-and-money-in-a-free-couch\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29872,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869\/revisions\/29872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}